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Title: Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits : with a sketch of her life, and an account of her relation to the origin of the Red Cross Society
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Abbott, Maude E. (Maude Elizabeth), 1869-1940
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: Boston : (s.l.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Rome. And in writ-ing to the Crown Princess of Prussia on hos-pital matters, she pleaded for clemency. Prussiawould remember, she was sure, the futurewars and misery always brought about bytrampling too violently on a fallen foe. Weknow, alas, only too well, how sadly her assur-ance was disappointed. During Lord Wolse-leys Egyptian campaign of 1882 she was activein organizing the female nurses who were re-quested, and emerged from her seclusion to at-tend several military reviews in London, andthen and thereafter assisted in the reorganiza-tion of the Army Hospital Service, which timewas again bringing into disrepute, and the in-terests of which she was able to forward mate-rially during the course of a visit to Balmoralin 1883, to receive the decoration of the RoyalRed Cross from the Queens hand. It is thus seen that among the many honorsand tributes that were showered upon her in theclosing years of her life none were more in keep-ing wdtli the spirit of it than that expressed at61
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Plate XIII. Miss Nightingale in Later Life. Portrait taken by Messrs. S. G. PajTie and Sons of Aylesbury, England, and published in the Sphere. possession of Miss H. A. Des Brisay, Montreal. From a copy in 62 the Eighth International Conference of RedCross Societies in London in June, 1907, towhich Queen Alexandra sent a message referringto the pioneer of the First Red Cross move-ment. Miss Florence Nightingale, whose heroicefforts on behalf of suffering humanitywill be recognized and admired by ailages as long as the world shall last.,The resolution read: The great and incom-parable name of Miss Florence Nightingale,whose merits in the field of humanity are neverto be forgotten, and who raised the care of thesick to the position of a charitable art, imposeson the Eighth International Conference of RedCross Societies the noble duty of renderinghomage to her merits by expressing warmly itshigh veneration. Another large sphere of activity which arosesince the time and outside of the dep

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